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Celebrating 7 Years at CircleCI With Continuous.Academy
Posted onToday marks my 7 year anniversary at CircleCI. Those of you who are familiar with startups know what a rarity this is. Over my career many of my colleagues tend to last 2-4 years at a company before moving on. While I’m not planning on leaving just yet, there’s been something on my mind. A project I’ve been wanting to build for years to sum up my experience at CircleCI.
As my 7 year anniversary approached, I figured today would be a great day to kick off this project and serve as a forcing function. Let’s talk about Continuous.Academy.
continue reading →How to Install Java 8 on macOS
Posted onLet’s get straight to the “how” and stick around if you want to know the “why”.
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Now here’s some information on why this works and what it does.
continue reading →Deprecating Zoom Manager & my AWS Docker Image
Posted onUnfortunately I am deprecating two projects of mine, both of which have many users. The good news is that I have chosen great alternate solutions for each.
continue reading →2023 Website Plans
Posted onHappy New Year!
Last year was a down year for me. I wasn’t as active on social media as I have been in the past and I barely blogged at all. I’m going to be changing that for 2023. As we begin this new year, I wanted to quickly share what my plans are going forward.
continue reading →Better Vim Environment on Ubuntu
Posted onDeploy with SSH on CircleCI
Posted onOne of the most recurring issues I see on the CircleCI Discuss forum are people playing around with SSH keys in order to get them to work with external servers. There are different ways to handle this. Here’s my favorite method to do it.
continue reading →CircleCI Desktop Wallpaper #14 - Pac-Man
Posted onIn continuing with my series of CircleCI desktop wallpapers (after over a year!), here’s another one.
Since my last one, CircleCI has raised a series F round of funding and we hit 10 years old. I myself am getting closer to my 6-year mark at the company and felt very reflective. Like Pac-Man, CircleCI started in a very different time. A pretty impressive journey but we’re just getting started.
You’ll find the preview in this post but you can download the full resolution 4K/16:9 version (for normal screens) and a 4K/16:10 version (for Macbook-like screens) from the links below.
continue reading →Install Android sdkmanager on Ubuntu
Posted onI tried installing the Android “sdkmanager” on Ubuntu and I ran into several problems.
A lot of the instructions I found online tell you to use Android Studio instead, which I don’t want to do, or provided instructions that simply didn’t work for me.
Here’s how I installed the Android Command Line tool, sdkmanager
on Ubuntu 20.04.